Monday, July 9, 2012

The God particle and the trump card

The recent discovery of the "God Particle" has been a major breakthrough for science across the globe. Not only has the scientific community promoted the particle, but the media has hyped it as well. The "God Particle" is known properly as the Higgs boson particle and the quest for this particle was pursued for many years. Why all the hype and what are the implications of this newly discovered particle?

One of the main reasons for the hype is the discovery of the most fundamental piece of the universe's beginning that has ever been discovered. According to the scientific community, this particle is so important that it is responsible for springing the universe into existence after the "Big Bang" and giving mass to all particles of matter. It is so named because it helps us to understand the process of the universe's earliest stage of development.

It is interesting that the Higgs bosen is refereed to as the "God Particle." The "God Particle" reference is used because of the fact that God has traditionally been understood as the creator of the universe. However, some might be willing to say that this discovery explains away the existence of God, hence the name - "God Particle." But does the particle really render God useless?

A couple of points need to be made to counter those who would say that God is now officially dead. First, The "God Particle" did not create the universe, for the universe was already in existence, according to the "Big Bang." And, secondly, for those who still want to hold on to the universe from nothing idea, a scientific explanation must be given to explain the origin of something from nothing. This last explanation will never be given, because science is unable to address this point.

Why all the hype? For many, there is always a quest to try and disprove the existence of God. Scientism claims that science is the trump card of explaining away the universe, but is it? Science ultimately fails, because as it has already been stated, explaining something from nothing is not something science can do. Science assumes only the material universe and tests within that realm, therefore, the something from nothing question is relegated to philosophy. Philosophy is the field that possesses the real trump card. The "God Particle" may have made many delight in the possibility of destroying God, but in the end, no evidence from a scientific perspective can accomplish this task.

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"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”(John 4:23-24 ESV)

The "God particle" does not answer or explain this cryptic declaration which Jesus made to the woman at the well.

Neither does it answer any of my questions about "sin" as described by the Biblical testimony on human nature and history.

It does not answer the question of how Jesus was resurrected from being stone cold, dead, for those of us who believe the testimony of those who saw, spoke with and touched Him after He was resurrected.

And finally, nothing about the "God particle" offers me comfort in the loneliness of being so small in such a giant Universe.

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1. Apologetics: Help Wanted (general discussion on apologetics and the need for apologetics in the Church today).

2. Can We Trust The New Testament?

3. Where Do Moral Values Come From?

4. Darwin, Knowledge and Truth

5. Did Jesus Rise?

6. Cosmological Fine-Tuning (an argument for God from Design)

7. Irreducible Complexity (an argument for design and against Darwin's view of evolution)

8. Would An All-loving God Condemn Anyone To Hell?

9. Religious Pluralism: Do All Roads Lead To God?

10. The Problem Of Evil

11. Where Does God Come From?

12. Is Abortion The Taking Of Innocent Life?

13. Chopping The Cultural Forest With An Acts 17 (How to engage culture that is skeptical of Christianity)

14. Latter - Day Dialogue (How to dialogue and engage the Mormon missionary)